Review: Mahler – Symphony No. 8 (Sydney Symphony/Ashkenazy)
Music of this heft really needs majestic phrasing and it certainly receives it here.
January 3, 2011
Greg Keane has been a Limelight contributor since 2008. He is a copywriter and has also lectured in music appreciation in the adult education sector. He has a prodigious collection of LPs and was previously a producer (aka the Dark Lord of Vinyl) of ABC Classic FM.
Music of this heft really needs majestic phrasing and it certainly receives it here.
If ever you needed a musical snapshot of Vienna between the wars, this is it.
These performances don’t surpass the likes of Karajan or Kletzki but they are thoroughly recommendable.